The contrary argument was made to me by my dad, who called himself a "Goldwater 
Conservative", was that when you end up as a blood smear all over the highway 
or all smashed up against a tree, *someone* has to clean that sh¡t up. Factor 
in, further, rubbernecking, the possibility of children seeing your dismembered 
body laying in parts on the road as they drive by, trauma to the poor truck 
driver who you smashed into who'll have to live with having killed you for the 
rest of her life, etc. You MIGHT save us *all* a lot of money and psychological 
trauma if you'd simply wear the seat belt. [†]

So, you *are* harming others by not wearing a seat belt.

In the immortal words of teenagers everywhere, it's not about you. >8^D

[†] Add to that the consideration that human life is *infrastructure*. Sure if 
you're a do-nothing wastoid, your death costs us only the above and may save us 
money in the long-term. But if you're competent at something, anything, then WE 
are all better off if you wear your seat belt. To assert that you're *not* 
harming us by not wearing your seat belt seems extraordinarily self-indulgent.

On 5/11/20 10:05 PM, Steven A Smith wrote:
> To be told I was harming others by not wearing a seatbelt feels patently 
> incorrect.


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